Episodes
Jim talks to Louise Blain; writer, producer, true crime connoisseur, Assassin's Creed obsessive and all round murder enthusiast, about how she is on a mission to curate True Crime podcasts with her podcast about podcasts, Killt. Find out more about her work in this podcast about a podcast that's about podcasts. We're also huge Assassin's Creed fans, so we then talk about what we'd like to see in Valhalla, the future of the franchise, why we love it, and more. But this was recorded two months...
Published 08/07/20
Jim is joined by celebrated game developer Mike Bithell, creator of indie hits Thomas Was Alone, Volume, the Circular series of adventure games, and John Wick Hex which is out now on PS4. Today though, we’re talking about North Star Rising; an ambitious and wonderful project designed as a creative outlet for Bithell Games during the lockdown. A serialised science fiction audio comedy/drama produced entirely in the era of working from home, with a stellar cast, a sharp script, and a double...
Published 05/20/20
This week we’re joined by presenter, writer, video producer and all-round games media personality Alysia Judge. Alysia and Burns talk Call of Duty: Warzone, and the connections they've made with friends and strangers through online gaming over the years. Also, Alysia discusses her upcoming videos for Netflix which are all about watching Netflix, role-playing DnD as an elderly welsh Nanny, and er, owning a freezer full of discount cornettos? We also talk about her role in upcoming murder...
Published 05/15/20
Jim chats to Xalavier Nelson Jr, writer of critically acclaimed indie games Hypnospace Outlaw and Can Androids Pray, creator of upcoming absurdist adventure An Airport For Aliens Currently Run By Dogs, and producer of Adios, the best game about a pig farmer refusing to dispose of bodies for the mob that you will play in 2020. He’s one of the most exciting figures in game development right now and it’s a fascinating interview that you won’t want to miss! Also in this episode: Burns and Dave...
Published 04/15/20
Published 04/15/20
Jim Trinca reunites with his old Gamewank cohort Richie Morgan to talk about the thing they love the most: TV shows with grand, sweeping stories told over multiple seasons. But has the small screen finally gotten too big? From I, Claudius to Star Trek: Picard, we talk about why the binge era is a monkey's paw curse for fans of the Long Arc. If you have any lockdown tips, recipes, exercise routines, cool things you've spotted in digital sales, stories that you don't mind sharing, anything...
Published 04/11/20
Ventin' Quarantinos, a podcast about Attempted Normalcy in the face of lockdown, returns with a very special guest: Simon Miller, face of WhatCulture, former VideoGamer, and future WWE Hall of Famer (probably). Alongside host Steven 'Burns' Burns, he chats all things WrestleMania, as well as giving workout tips for when you can't go to the gym. Or anywhere. If you have any lockdown tips, recipes, exercise routines, cool things you've spotted in digital sales, stories that you don't mind...
Published 04/08/20
Welcome to Ventin' Quarantinos, the "new" podcast from Jim and Burns (and Dave) about nothing, normalcy, and trying to make the best of it. To keep sane, Burns has been playing PES, while Jim has been watching travelogues on Britbox and adding Live It Up by Mental As Anything to every one of Dave's Spotify playlists. Dave has been watching Tiger King on Netflix, and regretting the time he left his Spotify logged in on Jim's laptop. If you have any lockdown tips, recipes, exercise routines,...
Published 04/02/20
This is a special episode where we chat to Dan, a communications officer for Sony PlayStation QA. Not about the PS5, though, which launches holiday 2020, despite us never mentioning it here.
Published 10/08/19
In this episode, which we recorded a billion years ago, we try to think up a Terminator video game that would be good, but ultimately decide that Creative Assembly should just do one.
Published 09/18/19
Jim and Burns love Wolfenstein, Dave loves being on holiday, and everyone loves real-world locations being depicted in videogames. Also: Times David Cage has been right, more Tory sports, and how the best games often tell the smallest stories.
Published 08/16/19
Jim reckons that Amazon Prime's version of The Boys is miles better than their botched take on Preacher. But first, in a rare moment of intra-podcast camaraderie, everyone agrees that critics were wrong about the Lion King remake – we think it’s wonderful. Also: Burns is excited about The Irishman. Jim’s mum didn’t like Rocketman, but Dave did. Plus, why aren’t esports triumphs celebrated like any other competition win? Because they should be.
Published 08/06/19
We talk about Netflix's Witcher series, the best Doctor Who and why she needs to swap her sonic for an Uzi in an increasingly cold and hostile universe, and we find out that Dave used to play lacrosse, bringing his working class credentials into disrepute.
Published 07/31/19
Jim went to see Spider-Man, Dave worked on a film with Bill Murray which nobody has ever heard of, Jim’s old boss looked like Bill Murray, Dave interfered with a seagull in Brighton, Burns didn’t mention Alien 3.
Published 07/24/19
Jim went to a screening of the DS9 documentary in Bristol, where he was accidentally rude to someone, the imbecile, the moron. Burns found a sense of spiritual clarity about the nature of fandom after revisiting the Street Fighter movie. Dave likes dogs.
Published 07/17/19
After E3 in 2018, we recorded a podcast and never published it, cos we forgot. We're publishing it now cos it's just been sitting in the vault.
Published 07/15/19
Burns returns from E3, Jim falls in love with Godzilla, and Dave has to put up with them both.
Published 06/27/19
Star Trek: Picard sounds alright, eh?
Published 06/18/19
Jim, Burns and Dave are back with their first podcast of 2018 in which they talk about God of War, Westworld, and Infinity War while Jim goes off on a series of weird tangents. Many of your questions from Twitter are answered. Also, the boys are excited about going to E3.
Published 05/30/18
A Burnsless Jim & Dave take a rare opportunity to relax, share some Christmas cheer, and talk about their favourite games, films and telly of what has been a stellar year for culture, if not for the human race.
Published 12/21/17
Burns gives his full review of Wolfenstein 2, then we talk about our weirdest moments in film, the worst lines in good films, and wonder which movie stars they would have liked to have had as parents.
Published 11/15/17
Assassin's Creed Origins, Wolfenstein 2 and Super Mario Odyssey – Jim's played the biggest games of 2017's Christmas rush and he talks about them on this podcast for some reason. As it's Halloween we talk about what makes a great horror film, which allows Burns to gush about The Shining. Also everyone has an argument about Spaced. Dave questions his career choices.
Published 11/02/17
Star Trek: Discovery, movie tropes, the uselessness of a flame thrower against the T-1000 and of course, the double down.
Published 10/27/17
Good films from bad directors, Japan trip, Burns complains
Published 10/19/17
Jim's back, and he's seen Blade Runner 2049, so we talked about that for a bit before quizzing Dave about life on a film set, the importance of actor chemistry, and what exactly Ron Howard would have had to do when he took over directing the Han Solo movie.
Published 10/12/17